H. F. Simpson
Service no. 5190
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion
Born in Battersea; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Stockwell
Died of wounds on 3 June 1918, aged 22
CWGC: “Son of Frederick and Clara Jane Simpson, of 52 Bellefields Rd., Brixton London. Solicitor’s Clerk.”
Remembered at Ebblinghem Military Cemetery, France
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Harold Frederick Simpson, 15, lived at 52 Bellefields Road (where the family occupied 5 rooms), the eldest son of Frederick Simpson, 44, a solicitor’s clerk born in the City of London, and Clara Jane Simpson, 44, born in St. Marylebone, central London. Harold was born in Battersea, as was his sister Lily Florence Simpson, 13. His brother Victor Albert Simpson, 7, was born in Brixton. Frederick and Clara Simpson had four live babies, three of whom survived.
